Get ready for Valentine’s Day by learning how zoo matchmakers use science to “swipe right” for conservation. Mike Bock Male Andean bear Quito (above) has fathered two cubs at the Smithsonian’s ...

As temperatures soar past 100 degrees, lions and tigers get frozen treats, but not the same kind that pandas and elephants get.

Mike Bock Earlier this year, Bennet's wallaby Victoria gave birth to her sixth joey at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Smithsonian/Brett Kuxhausen For the last few months, animal care staff at the ...

If you make a beeline for the red pandas before even checking the map, this holiday is for you. National Zoo Lovers Day, celebrated every April 8th, gives us a chance to celebrate the animals (and the ...

About the size of a half-dollar, the baby painted river terrapin — a critically endangered species — at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C. should get an Olympic gold medal. Unbeknownst to the ...

(WASHINGTON) — The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C, caused panda-monium on Christmas Day when it released a video of it’s newest celebrities, Bao Li and Qing Bao. In the video, the giant ...

The Smithsonian National Zoo in D.C. is preparing for the birth of a large “charismatic and charming” animal: an Asian elephant calf. Zoo officials announced Monday morning that an Asian elephant is ...

Nov. 24 (UPI) --The Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington announced Monday that Asian elephant Nhi Linh is pregnant, adding the zoo is "cautiously optimistic" its first elephant calf in 25 years ...

Strategic planning is critical to the success of any organization–large or small, public or private, for-profit or nonprofit. Strategic planning is a process whereby an organization charts its future; ...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute announced on Nov. 24 that one of its Asian elephants is expecting, marking the first time an elephant calf will be born at the zoo in ...

WASHINGTON — The National Zoo is grieving the loss of a 7-year-old sloth named Athena, who died after a "sudden and irreversible" health decline. According to the National Zoo, Athena developed ...